About Us
We are an alternative asset management boutique, specializing in highly-liquid, absolute return investment strategies, aiming to deliver high-quality, sustainable, and attractive returns for our investors, regardless of market cycles.
By employing a multi-strategy approach, we integrate diverse ideas and perspectives within a single portfolio, creating a balanced framework intended to provide both stability and capital growth for our clients.
Clavis Capital Management is a Registered Investment Advisor ("RIA") and a Commodity Trading Advisor ("CTA"), registered with the CFTC and a member of the NFA.
Investment
Strategy
At Clavis Capital, we seek to deliver consistent, long-term absolute returns for our investors.
To achieve this, we design multi-strategy trading portfolios that are highly diversified across a broad range of asset classes, industries and geographies.
This diversification enables us to uncover opportunities and manage risks effectively, regardless of market conditions.
Our strategies are forged from long-standing patterns and behaviors across diverse domains, coded elegantly into proprietary decision-making factors and models. They are crafted to establish systematic and repeatable processes, free from human bias allowing for consistent execution.
As absolute return managers, our investment strategy follows three core principles:
Alpha Generation
Our primary objective is to identify and capture returns beyond standard market benchmarks. By leveraging advanced quantitative models and deep historical analysis, we pinpoint inefficiencies and asymmetries in the market. This enables us to deliver performance that is independent of broader market trends, creating value even in challenging conditions.
Market Diversification
We spread exposure across uncorrelated asset classes, industries, and geographies to minimize risk and maximize returns. This approach ensures that no single market event can disrupt portfolio stability. By maintaining a balance across global markets and diverse strategies, we remain resilient in the face of market volatility.
Liquidity Management
In rapidly changing market environments, liquidity is crucial. We prioritize maintaining high levels of liquidity within our portfolios, enabling us to adapt to new opportunities or risks as they arise. This agility allows us to preserve capital and optimize performance, regardless of external market pressures.
Investment Philosophy
01.
Investing is simple,
but not easy.
We always choose simplicity over complexity, subtracting the obvious and adding the meaningful.
02.
Human nature
Human nature remains the only constant in the investment decision-making process, making it the primary force behind financial market performance—particularly in the short and medium term.
03.
Asymmetry
Success, in both life and in investing, lies in exploiting asymmetric opportunities. We seek to gain our edge from finding imbalances rather than following conventional approaches.
04.
Contrarian Thinking
In the short-term, consensus is mostly wrong. in the long-term, reality discards failed ideas and leaves us only with those that withstand the test of time.
05.
Non-Linearity of Returns
Investment performance is rarely linear; volatility and uncertainty are inevitable. Quality of investment decisions should be examined through long-term lens, where
true skill distinguishes itself from mere luck.
06.
Art, not Science
We believe that Investing is more of an art than a science. There are things in life we cannot quantify, so we are inspired by intuition, perfected with data.
For the greatest enemy of truth is very often not the lie - deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth - persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.
We subject all facts to a prefabricated set of interpretations. We enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.
John F. Kennedy, June 11, 1962
